Wichita eagle., 1887-08-02
JOYOUS HERRINGToN.
The Rock Island Center of This Western
Country.

friends what city is being and Is to b
built at Harrington. For when you are il
Harrington everybody is in rush and |
hurry, and the fact of the business is th'
people of that place can scarcely attend t.
the business that actually demands atten
ton. This may seem strange to some PEG
pie however It's true. There are so few
small towns that are booming and rapidly
increasing their number of large
business houses at the present season of the
year, that one is made to rejoice on their ar
rival in such city where the watchword Is
onward and upward" and the carpenters
hammer is heard in almost every direction.
In most all other places we 60, we hea,
quite good deal Of complaint of dry
weather, ETC., but the people of Harrington
are going right square ahead with theil
good begun work, and are getting in shape
to do the business of city of five thousand
in habitants, which Harrington will surely
have In the course of three months. Now.
before we get too far along in this article,
we would like to inform all the readers OF
the EAGLE, and especially the spec
ulators of Southwestern Kansas, where
Harrington is, it is located about seventy
five miles east of Wichita, on the maine
line of the Rock Island, and is the point of
connection of both the Hutchinson, Pratt,
and also Alkaline branches of the Rock
Island maine line. Harrington has had TIE
Missouri Pacific road for some time and the
town being situated as it is in the midst of
a good country. Rrailroad advant-
ages positively makes it the best
town to speculate in that we know
of anywhere for the next year, owing to
the low prices which one can buy business
property for. And we are all becoming
aware that spectators are not buying prop
erty like farmers very often buy calves,
buy them at big prices and let them grow
to it. But they will and are buying them
at What is considered their present worth.
One of the incest features of Harrington
is that MIR. NJ. D, Harrington, the father of
the town, has about three thousand acres of
land, and the town of Harrington is situat-
ed almost in the center of it, and he is one
of those public spirited men who believe in
the old adage "live and let live" Mr.. W.
Fl. Tusten, the leading dry goods merchant
of Harrington, informs US that just in
front of where his store now stands, three
years ago, was the fence of cattle ranch.
I promise you it don't look like a ranch to-
day
Mr.. M. L. Hite is the genial proprietor
of the Harrington bus and transfer
line, and one who is always
ready to accommodate the boys
Harrington we can say, with our right hand
on was about to say our Bible but see
1t happens to be our receipt book-has the
finest spring water in all Kansas; everybody
has good well and they only have to 60
from 20 to 60 feet to getit. Owing to eleva-
ton their drainage is perfect. There is no
place In the city where water will lie thirty
minutes after the rainfall. Mr., David Ste
vens, the Rock Island depot contractor, in
forms us that the freight depot and round
house will be completed just as soon as pos.
sible. Mr.. Stevens is working forty five
men and that means completion on every
thing in the near future. The Rock Island
passenger depot at Harrington is one among
the finest on the road.
Quite a number of the business men of
Harrington are going to set apart couple
of days to 60 and visit the wonderful city
of Wichita. And of course when they
come the EAGLE office will be among the
places where they will visit, as they want
to see that man they have heard so much
about-Marsh Murdoch.
The question arising all along the Rock
Island line now is why is it that our
Wichita wholesale houses don't get their
men out and work the territory which
naturally belongs to them? Il seems very
strange indeed to us to be so close to
Wichita and yet other cities supply their
wants. Surely our wholesale men will
look this up and establish lasting trade.
Headquarters and three troops of the 9Th
cavalry passed through Harrington Tues
day on march from Fl. Riley to FITS. Reno
and Sill, l. t., and Fl. Elliott, Texas.
Capt G. F. Price goes to Fl. Elliott and
Col. Wade to Fl. Sill. No doubt great
many of our readers are acquainted with
the Colonel and also with his father in
Ohio. The last time we seen the boys was
at Peabody, and through the geniality of
Capt. Price we were shown through the
camp, and above all other things being per-
mitted to see old Apach. the Oldest
horse in the United States cavalry. The
troops will camp at Wichita about Mon
day, August /.
Now, before closing this letter, we would
just like to say that success belongs to the
Rock Island, for everywhere we go we
hear it spoken of very highly, and their
employees, generally speaking, are genial
set of gentlemen. Furthermore, there may
be some of our readers who will not give
to Harrington the credit which belongs to
her as a thrifty growing young city, and
all we can say is this, let us all take no
ones word for it, but 60 and
see for ourselves, and be
satisfied then in return the
citizens and especially the merchants in 50
many of the good towns such as Peabody,